The Rise of China and the Indo-Pacific Region in the 21st Century
Course Instructor:
Location:
Email address:
Phone:
Consultation Hours:
Dr. Jingdong Yuan
Jingdong.yuan@nccu.edu.tw
COURSE DESCRIPTION
China's rise to regional and global prominence has attracted growing attention in recent years.
Scholars as well as policymakers debate and assess the implications of rising Chinese power
for regional security and the international system. This seminar introduces students to
Chinese foreign and security policy, including its handling of major-power relations, its
active pursuit of multilateral diplomacy in regional organizations and participation in
international peacekeeping operations, and its changing perspectives on arms control,
disarmament, and non-proliferation. It begins with a brief history of phases in Chinese
foreign and security policy and then gives an overview of major theoretical approaches to the
subject. These theoretical perspectives are useful in examining a wide range of policy issues,
ranging from Chinese strategic modernization, security trends in the Taiwan Strait, civilmilitary relations, the Chinese foreign policy process, and the domestic sources of Chinese
foreign and security policy. The unit is taught as a seminar, with students expected to write a
book review, a research design and bibliography, and a final research paper. Students will be
required to do assigned reading, participate actively in class discussions, make oral
presentations of their book review and research paper, and serve as a discussant for one of
their classmates' papers.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The seminar will introduce students to the literature on Chinese foreign and security policy,
survey the history of the subject, and focus on the value of different theoretical approaches in
explaining and predicting Chinese international behaviour. Students will learn about Chinese
perspectives on international relations, global and regional security, and China’s role as a
rising power in a changing international system. The seminar will also include efforts to
understand how Chinese culture and history influence Chinese policies, negotiating
strategies, and thinking about foreign policy and security issues. Students will develop the
ability to use different international relations theories to examine/explain Chinese foreign
policy decisions and outcomes. Course assignments will improve student analytical and
presentation skills via book reviews that critique important books on the subject, oral
presentations, and a research paper. Students will be encouraged to use Chinese language
sources (if they have the appropriate language ability)
LEARNING STRUCTURE
Each weekly seminar provides an opportunity for the Instructor to introduce students to the
key concepts and policy issues of a chosen topic and engages students in in-depth discussions
of various issues. This requires students to provide an overview of each week’s topic and
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show how it fits into the overall aims of this unit of study. Although the Coordinator will lead
off each week’s discussions with a lecture style presentation, you should be prepared to
discuss the essential readings for each meeting with fellow students and the Coordinator.
These discussions will help you to test arguments and check your understanding of concepts
and data. The second part of many of the weekly seminars (weeks 3-13) will be student led,
requiring several students (3-4) to deliver a group presentation and lead seminar discussion of
the assigned week. This leadership role will form part of the assessed participation grade for
the course (15% of 25% overall class participation). Students are free to consult the
coordinator on their presentation prior to its delivery.
COURSE SCHEDULE
Fall Semester 2014
Week
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Date
16 September
23 September
30 September
07 October
14 October
21 October
28 October
04 November
11 November
18 November
25 November
03 December
10 December
17 December
24 December
31 December
06 January
13 January
Lecture
Introduction
China’s Rise: Theoretical and Policy Implications
Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy
National Defense and Nuclear Policy
China’s Growing International Role
Sino-US Relations
Sino-Japanese Relations
China and the Korean Peninsula
China, Russia, and Central Asia
China, India, and South Asia
China and Southeast Asia
Sino-Australian Relations
China and Africa
China and Latin America
China and Cross-Strait Relations
Student Presentations
Student Presentations
Student Presentations/Summary of Course
Tutorial
READING REQUIREMENTS
Textbooks
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Robert S. Ross and Zhu Feng, eds., China’s Ascent: Power, Security, and the Future
of International Politics (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009).
Robert G. Sutter, Foreign Relations of the PRC: the Legacies and Constraints of
China’s International Politics since 1949 (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013).
Also recommended:
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Geoff Dyer, The Contest of the Century: the New Era of Competition with China—
and How America Can Win (New York: Knopf, 2014).
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James Steinberg and Michael O’Hanlon, Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: U.S.China Relations in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2014).
Nina Hachigian, Debating China: The U.S.-China Relationship in Ten
Conversations (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Orville Schell and John Delury, Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the
Twenty-First Century (New York: Little, Brown 2013).
Mel Gurtov, Will This Be China’s Century? A Skeptic’s View (Boulder and London:
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013).
David Shambaugh, China Goes Global: the Partial Power (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2013).
Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell, China’s Search for Security (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2012).
Robert S. Ross, Chinese Security Policy: Structure, Power, and Politics (London and
New York: Routledge, 2009).
Alastair Iain Johnston and Robert S. Ross, eds., New Directions in the Study of
China’s Foreign Policy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006).
Aaron L. Friedberg, A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for
Mastery in Asia (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011).
Michael D. Swaine, America’s Challenges: Engaging a Rising China in the TwentyFirst Century (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
2011).
David M. Lampton, eds., The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the
Era of Reform (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001).
ASSESSMENT TASKS AND DUE DATES
Class presentation & Participation:
You will be asked to select a class presentation topic at the beginning of the semester.
Presentations will last for 15 minutes followed by Q & A and then an expansion into a wider
class discussion. In addition the Coordinator will assess the overall quality (rather than the
quantity) of your preparation for and contributions to meetings. Further details and
expectations will be discussed at the beginning of the semester. Students may also consult
the coordinator during office hours for further assistance.
The requirements/guidelines for presentations will be outlined in advance (lecture 1).
Course assignments will include a book report, class participation, a research outline and a
final research paper. Students will be required to write two papers during the course. The first
paper will be a 2 to 3-page, double-spaced book review, which is due in week 9. Each book
review should briefly (2-3 paragraphs) summarize the author(s)’ main argument(s) and
critically evaluate its strengths and weaknesses in explaining Chinese foreign and security
policy from theoretical and/or policy perspectives. The second paper will be a 5,000-word
research paper, with an abstract of 150 words, is due week 18. The last two to three classes
will be reserved for student presentations. Students are expected to have completed the
readings before class and to actively participate in class discussions.
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Assessment task
Weighting
Due date
Word length
1. Class presentation/
participation
30% (20/10)
Last 2-3 weeks
(starting Dec 31)
15-20 mins for
presentation
(=750 words)
2. Book Report
20%
Week 9 (Nov 11)
750
3. Research Paper
50%
Week 18 (Jan 13)
5,000
Total
100%
6,500
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
This course uses standards referenced assessment for award of assessment marks as defined
and stipulated by NCCU. Students’ assessment will be evaluated solely on the basis of
students’ achievement against criteria and standards specified to align with learning
outcomes.
WEEKLY SCHEDULE/READING LIST
Week 1
Introduction/Chinese Foreign and Security Policy since 1949
Key topics:
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Introduction to course: overview & expectations
Why study Chinese foreign and security policy?
Distinctions between ‘Foreign’ & ‘Security’ policy
Chinese security and foreign policy since 1949
Essential reading:
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Robert Sutter, Foreign Relations of the PRC, Chapters 1-4.
Yuen Foong Khong, “Primacy or World Order? The United States and China’s
Rise—A Review Essay,” International Security 38:3 (Winter 2013/14), pp. 153‐ 175.
Yan Xuetong, “From Keeping a Low Profile to Striving for Achievement,” The
Chinese Journal of International Politics 7:2 (Summer 2014), pp. 153‐ 184.
Additional Reading:
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David M. Lampton, The Three Faces of Chinese Power (Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 2008), chapter 1.
Yu Bin, “The Study of Chinese Foreign Policy: Problems and Prospect,” World
Politics 46 (January 1994), pp. 235-261.
Allen Carlson, ‘Looking Beyond Dragons and Pandas: On the Challenges of Teaching
About Chinese Foreign Relations’, Journal of Chinese Political Science 17 (2012),
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pp. 421-431.
Allen Whiting, ‘IR Theory vs. the Fortune Cookie’, in Thomas W. Robinson and
David Shambaugh, eds., Chinese Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice (New York:
Clarendon Press, 1995), pp. 506-523.
Wang Jisi, ‘International Relations Theory and the Study of Chinese Foreign Policy:
A Chinese Perspective’, in Robinson and Shambaugh, eds., Chinese Foreign Policy,
pp. 481-505.
Samuel S. Kim, ‘Chinese Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice’, in Samuel S. Kim,
ed., China and the World, 4th edition (Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1998), pp. 333.
Week 2
China’s Rise: Theoretical and Policy Implications
Key topics:
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International Relations theories and great powers
International structures and Chinese foreign/security policy
China’s foreign relations: opportunities and challenges
Implications of China’s rise as a great power
Essential reading:
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Jack S. Levy, ‘Power Transition Theory and the Rise of China’, in Ross and Zhu,
eds., China’s Ascent, pp. 11-33.
G. John Ikenberry, ‘The Rise of China: Power, Institutions, and the Western Order’,
in Ross and Zhu, eds., China’s Ascent, pp. 89-114.
Robert Sutter, Foreign Relations of the PRC, chapter 4.
Randall L. Schweller and Xiaoyu Pu, ‘After Unipolarity: China’s Visions of
International Order in an Era of U.S. Decline’, International Security 42:1 (2012), pp.
41-72.
Additional reading:
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Stephen M. Walt, “International Relations: One World, Many Theories,” Foreign
Policy 110 (Spring 1998), pp. 29‐47.
Michael Beckley, ‘China’s Century? Why America’s Edge Will Endure,’
International Security 36:3 (Winter 2011/12), pp. 41-78.
Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevchenko, ‘Status Seekers: Chinese and Russian
Responses to U.S. Primacy’, International Security 34:4 (Spring 2010), pp. 63-95.
Qin Yaqing and Wei Ling, ‘Structure, Processes, and the Socialization of Power: East
Asian Community-building and the Rise of China’, ibid., pp. 115-138.
Zhu Feng, ‘China’s Rise Will Be Peaceful: How Unipolarity Matters’, ibid., pp. 3454.
Avery Goldstein, ‘Parsing China’s Rise: International Circumstances and National
Attributes’, ibid., pp. 55-86.
Alastair Johnston, ‘Is China a Status Quo Power?’ International Security 27:4 (Spring
2003), pp. 5-56.
Margaret M. Pearson, ‘China in Geneva: Lessons from China’s Early Years in the
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World Trade Organization’, in New Directions, pp. 242-275.
Samuel S. Kim, ‘Chinese Foreign Policy Faces Globalization Challenges’, in New
Directions, pp. 276-306.
Steve Chan, China, the U.S., and the Power-Transition Theory (London and New
York: Routledge, 2008).
Phillip C. Saunders, ‘China’s Role in Asia’, in Shambaugh and Yahuda, pp. 127-149;
Elizabeth Economy and Michel Oksenberg, ‘Introduction: China Joins the World’, in
China Joins the World, pp. 1-41.
Elizabeth Economy, ‘The Impact of International Regimes on Chinese Foreign
Policy-Making’, in Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy, pp. 230-256.
Alastair Iain Johnston and Paul Evans, ‘China's Engagement with Multilateral
Security Institutions’, in Alastair Iain Johnston and Robert S. Ross, eds., Engaging
China: the Management of An Emerging Power (New York and London: Routledge,
1999), pp. 235-272.
Alastair Iain Johnston, ‘International Structures and Chinese Foreign Policy’, in
China and the World, pp. 55-87.
Samuel S. Kim, ‘Chinese Foreign Policy Faces Globalization Challenges’, in New
Directions, pp. 276-306.
G. John Ikenberry, ‘The Rise of China and the Future of the West’, Foreign Affairs
87:1 (January/February 2008), pp. 23-37.
Week 3
Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy
Key topics:
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Domestic players and debates
Power, prestige, and foreign policy priorities
Chinese foreign policymaking processes
Public opinions and foreign policy
Essential reading:
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Robert Sutter, Foreign Relations of the PRC, Chapter 5.
Linda Jakobson and Dean Knox, New Foreign Policy Actors in China. SIPRI Policy
Paper No. 26 (Stockholm International Peace and Research Institute, September
2010), http://books.sipri.org/files/PP/SIPRIPP26.pdf
Timothy R. Heath, ‘What Does China Want? Discerning the PRC’s National
Strategy’, Asian Security 8:1 (2012), pp. 54-72.
Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell, China’s Search for Security (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2012), Chapter 2.
Additional readings:
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Feng Zhang, ‘Rethinking China’s Grand Strategy: Beijing’s Evolving National
Interests and Strategic Ideas in the Reform Era’, International Politics 49:3 (2012),
pp. 318-345.
Su Changhe, “Understanding Chinese Diplomatic Transformation: A Multi-Actor’s
Perspective,” The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 5 (2010), pp. 313-329.
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David Shambaugh, “Coping with a Conflictual China,” The Washington Quarterly
34:1 (Winter 2011), pp. 7-27.
 Jean-Peirre Cabestan, ‘China’s Foreign- and Security-policy Decision-making
Processes under Hu Jintao,’ Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2009, pp. 63-97.
 Chen Zhemin, Jian Junbo, and Chen Diyu, “The Provinces and China’s Multi-Layered
Diplomacy: The Cases of GMS and Africa,” The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 5
(2010), pp. 331-356.
 Alastair Iain Johnston, ‘The Correlates of Beijing Public Opinion toward the United
States, 1998-2004’, in New Directions, pp. 340-377.
 Joseph Fewsmith and Stanley Rosen, ‘The Domestic Context of Chinese Foreign
Policy: Does “Public Opinion” Matter’? in Making of Chinese Foreign and Security
Policy, pp. 151-190.
 Alastair Iain Johnston, “Cultural Realism and Strategy in Maoist China,” in Peter J.
Katzenstein, ed., The Culture of National Security (New York: Columbia University
Press, 1996), pp. 216-236; 251-268.
 H. Lyman Miller and Liu Xiaohong, “The Foreign Policy Outlook of China’s ‘Third
Generation’ Elite,” in Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy, pp. 123-150.
 Benjamin Schwartz. “The Chinese Perception of World Order, Past and Present,” in
John K. Fairbank, The Chinese World Order: Traditional China’s Foreign Relations
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968), pp. 276-290.
 Wu Xinbo, “China: Security Practice of a Modernizing and Ascending Power,” in
Muthiah Alagappa, ed., Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), pp. 115-156.
 Peter T. Y. Cheung and James T. H. Tang, “The External Relations of China’s
Provinces,” in The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy, pp. 91-122.
 Erica Strecker Downs and Phillip C. Saunders, “Legitimacy and the Limits of
Nationalism: China and the Diaoyu Islands,” in The Rise of China, pp. 41-73.
 David Shambaugh, “China’s Military Views the World: Ambivalent Security,” in The
Rise of China, pp. 105-132.
 Medeiros, China’s International Behaviour, chapter 2.
 Deng Yong, ‘Reputation and the Security Dilemma: China Reacts to the China Threat
Theory’, in New Directions, pp. 186-214.
 C. Fred Bergsten et al., China’s Rise: Challenges and Opportunities (Washington,
DC: Peterson Institute and CSIS: 2008), chapter 2.
 David M. Lampton, ‘China’s Foreign and National Security Policy-Making Process:
Is It Changing and Does It Matter’? in Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy,
pp. 1-36.
 Bates Gill, Rising Star: China’s New Security Diplomacy (Washington, D.C.: The
Brookings Institution, 2007),
pp.1-20,
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/Press/Books/2007/risingstar/risingstar_chapter.p
df.
 David Bachman, ‘Structure and Process in the Making of Chinese Foreign Policy’, in
China and the World, pp.34-54.
 Tai Ming Cheung, ‘The Influence of the Gun: China’s Central Military Commission
and Its Relationship with the Military, Party, and State Decision-Making Systems’, in
Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy, pp. 61-90.
 Alex Chopan, ‘A Table for Two: Jiang Zemin and the PLA’, Journal of
Contemporary China, Vol. 11, No. 31 (May 2002), pp. 281-296.
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 John Garver, ‘China’s Push Through the South China Sea: The Interaction of
Bureaucratic and national Interests’, China Quarterly, No. 132 (December 1992), pp.
999-1028.
 Lu Ning, ‘The Central Leadership, Supraministry Coordinating Bodies, State Council
Ministries, and Party Departments’, in Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy,
pp. 39-60.
 Denny Roy, ‘The Structure and Process of Foreign Policy-Making’, in China’s
Foreign Relations, pp 63-76.
Week 4
National Defence and Nuclear Policy
Key topics:
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Beijing’s threat perceptions in the post-Cold War world
Chinese defence modernization
Role of nuclear weapons in China’s defence posture
Recent nuclear weapons/ballistic missile modernization efforts
Essential reading:
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Robert Sutter, China’s Foreign Relations, chapter 5.
M. Taylor Fravel and Evan S. Medeiros, ‘China’s Search for Assured Retaliation: The
Evolution of Chinese Nuclear Strategy and Force Structure’, International Security
35:2 (Fall 2010), pp. 48-87.
Andrew Scobell and Andrew Nathan, “China’s Overstretched Military,” The
Washington Quarterly 35:4 (Fall 2012), pp. 135-148.
Feng Zhang, ‘China’s New Thinking on Alliances’, Survival 54:5 (OctoberNovember 2012), pp. 129-148.
Additional reading:
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U.S. Department of Defense, Military and Security Developments involving the
People’s Republic of China. Report to Congress 2014.
‘Chinese Nuclear Forces 2013’, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 69:6
(November/December 2013), pp. 79-85,
http://bos.sagepub.com/content/69/6/79.full.pdf+html.
David C. Gompert and Phillips C. Saunders, The Paradox of Power (Washington,
D.C.: National Defense University Press, 2011), chapters 3-4,
http://www.ndu.edu/press/lib/pdf/books/paradox-of-power/paradox-ofpower.pdfPhillips C. Saunders, et al., The Chinese Navy: Expanding Capabilities,
Evolving Roles (Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 2011).
Baohui Zhang, ‘US Missile Defence and Chinese Nuclear Posture’, International
Affairs 87:3 (May 2011).
Michael A. Glosny, “Getting beyond Taiwan? Chinese Foreign Policy and the PLA
Modernization,” Strategic Forum No. 261 (National Institute for Strategic Studies,
National Defense University, January 2011),
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/docUploaded/SF%20261_Glosny.pdfMark Schneider, “The
Nuclear Doctrine and Forces of the People’s Republic of China,” Comparative
Strategy 28:3 (July 2009), pp. 244-270.
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M. Taylor Fravel, ‘China’s Search for Military Power’, The Washington Quarterly
31:3 (Summer 2008), pp. 125-141,
http://www.twq.com/08summer/docs/08summer_fravel.pdf
Phillip C. Saunders and Erik R. Quam, ‘China’s Air Force Modernization’, Joint
Forces Quarterly 47:4 (2007), pp. 28-33,
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Press/jfq_pages/editions/i47/7.pdf;
Bernard D. Cole, ‘China’s Growing Maritime Power: Implications for the United
States’, Asia Program Special Report No. 135 (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, December 2006), pp. 12-16,
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/ASIA_135.pdf;
Ashley J. Tellis, ‘China’s Military Space Strategy’, Survival 49:3 (Autumn 2007), pp.
41-72, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/tellis_china_space1.pdf
Evan S. Medeiros, ‘Minding the Gap’: Assessing the Trajectory of the PLA’s Second
Artillery’, in Roy Kamphausen and Andrew Scobell, eds., Right Sizing the People’s
Liberation Army: Exploring the Contours of China’s Military (Strategic Studies
Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2007), pp. 143-190,
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB784.pdf
Andrew S. Erickson and Lyle J. Goldstein, ‘China’s Future Nuclear Submarine Force:
Insights from Chinese Writings’, Naval War College Review (Winter 2007), pp. 5579.
Week 5
China’s International Behaviour: Non-proliferation and PKOs
Key topics:
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China and global arms control and non-proliferation
WMD and Beijing’s changing perspectives and policies
Sovereignty, intervention, and China’s PKO participation
Essential readings:
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Evan S. Medeiros, Reluctant Restraint: the evolution of China’s nonproliferation
policies and practices, 1980-2004 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007),
Chapter One.
David Shambaugh, China Goes Global: the Partial Power (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2013), Chapter 7.
Bates Gill and Chin-hao Huang, China’s Expanding Role in Peacekeeping
(Stockholm: SIPRI, 2009), http://books.sipri.org/files/PP/SIPRIPP25.pdf
Additional readings:
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Shirley A. Kan, China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and
Missiles: Policy Issues. CRS Report for Congress, 04 January 2014,
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL31555.pdfJeol Wuthnow, Xin Li, and Lingling Qi,
‘Diverse Multilateralism: Four Strategies in China’s Multilateral Diplomacy’, Journal
of Chinese Political Science 17 (2012), pp. 269-290.
Bates Gill, China and Nuclear Arms Control: Current Positions and Future Policies
(Stockholm: SIPRI, 2010).
Shi Yinghong, ‘The Roles China Ought to Play in the World’, Stockholm China
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Forum, July 2011.
International Crisis Group, China’s Growing Role in UN Peacekeeping, Asia Report
No. 166 (April 2009).
Hui Zhang, “China’s Perspectives on a Nuclear-Free World,” The Washington
Quarterly 33:2 (April 2010), pp. 139-155,
http://www.twq.com/10april/docs/10apr_Zhang.pdf
Allen Carlson, ‘More Than Just Saying No: China’s Evolving Approach to
Sovereignty and Intervention’, in New Directions, pp. 217-241.
Bates Gill and James Reilly, ‘Sovereignty, Intervention, and Peacekeeping: The View
from Beijing’, Survival 42:3 (Autumn 2000), pp.41-59.
Bonnie S. Glaser and Wang Liang, ‘North Korea: The Beginning of a U.S.-China
Partnership’? The Washington Quarterly 31:3 (Summer 2008), pp. 165-180,
http://www.twq.com/08summer/docs/08summer_glaser-wang.pdf.
Dingli Shen, ‘Can Sanctions Stop Proliferation’? The Washington Quarterly 31:3
(Summer 2008), pp. 89-100,
http://www.twq.com/08summer/docs/08summer_shen.pdf.
Tanya Ogilvie-White, ‘The Limits of International Society: Understanding China’s
Response to Nuclear Breakout and Third Party Non-Compliance’, Asian Security 1:2
(April 2005), pp. 129-156.
Jing-dong Yuan, ‘The Evolution of Chinese Nonproliferation Policy since the end of
the Cold War: Progress, Problems and Prospects’, Journal of Contemporary China
11:31 (May 2002), pp. 209-233.
Chinese White Paper on Arms Control and Nonproliferation, September 2005.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-09/01/content_474248.htm.
Michael D. Swaine and Alastair Iain Johnston, ‘China and Arms Control’, in
Elizabeth Economy and Michel Oksenberg, eds., China Joins the World: Progress
and Prospects (New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1999), pp. 90-135.
Bates Gill, Rising Star: China’s New Security Diplomacy (Washington, D.C.: The
Brookings Institution, 2007), pp. 74-103.
Evan S. Medeiros, Chasing the Dragon: Assessing China’s System of Export Controls
for WMD-related Goods and Technologies (Santa Monica: RAND, 2005),
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2005/RAND_MG353.pdf.
Zou Yunhua, ‘Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: A View from China’, The
Nonproliferation Review 13:2 (July 2006), pp. 253-273.
Xiaohui (Anne) Wu, ‘China and the U.S. beyond the Korean Peninsula: The Bigger
Power Game’, The Nonproliferation Review 13:2 (July 2006), pp. 317-338.
John W. Garver, China and Iran: Ancient Partners in a Post-Imperial World (Seattle,
WA: University of Washington Press, 2006), chapter 8.
Week 6
China and the United States: Partners or Rivals?
Key topics:
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Sino-U.S. relations in historical context
Major issues in bilateral relations
Areas of U.S.-China cooperation and conflicts
Essential readings:
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Robert Sutter, Foreign Relations of the PRC, Chapter 7.
Robert J. Art, ‘The United States and the Rise of China: Implications for the Long
Haul’, in Ross and Zhu, pp. 260-290.
Thomas Fingar and Fan Jishe, ‘Ties that Bind: Strategic Stability in the U.S.-China
Relationship’, The Washington Quarterly 36:4 (Fall 2013), pp. 125-138.
Robert Sutter, ‘China and America: The Great Divergence’? Orbis (Summer 2014),
pp. 358-377.
Additional readings:
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David M. Lampton, “A New Type of Major‐Power Relations: Seeking a Durable
Foundation for U.S.‐China Ties,” Asia Policy No. 16 (July 2013): 1‐18.
Lanxin Xiang, 'China and the "Pivot"', Survival 54:5 (October–November 2012), pp.
113-128.
Kenneth Liberthal and Wang Jisi, Addressing U.S.-China Strategic Distrust
(Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, March 2012),
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2012/3/30-us-chinalieberthal/0330_china_lieberthal.pdf
Milosz Kucharski, ‘China in the Age of American Primacy’, International Relations
26:1 (2011), pp. 60-77.
Wu Xinbo, ‘China and the United States: Core Interests, Common Interests, and
Partnership’, USIP Special Report 277 (June 2011).
Benjamin O. Fordham and Katja B. Kleinberg, ‘International Trade and US Relations
with China’, Foreign Policy Analysis (2011), pp. 217-236.
Michael Chase, ‘Chinese Suspicion and US Intentions’, Survival 53:3 (May 2011),
pp. 133-150.
Rosemary Foot, ‘China and the United States: Between Cold and Warm Peace’,
Survival 51:6 (December 2009-January 2010), pp. 123-146.
Kenneth Lieberthal, ‘The China-US Relationship Goes Global’, Current History
(September 2009), pp. 243-249
Christopher Layne, ‘China’s Challenge to American Hegemony’, Current History
(January 2008), pp. 13-18.
Aaron L. Friedberg, ‘The Future of U.S.-China Relations: Is Conflict Inevitable’?
International Security 30:2 (October 2005), pp. 7-45.
Kai He, ‘Dynamic Balancing: China’s Balancing Strategies toward the United States.
1949-2005’, Journal of Contemporary China 18:58 (January 2009), pp. 113-136.
Jonathan Kirshner, ‘The Consequences of China’s Economic Rise for Sino-U.S.
Relations: Rivalry, Political Conflict, and (Not) War’, in Ross and Zhu, pp. 238-259.
Wang Jisi, ‘China’s Search for Stability with America’, Foreign Affairs 84:5
(September/October 2005), pp. 39-48.
Peter Hays Gries, ‘Identity and Conflict in Sino-American Relations’, in New
Directions, pp. 309-339.
Evan S. Medeiros, ‘Strategic Hedging and the Future of Asia-Pacific Stability’, The
Washington Quarterly 29:1 (Winter 2005-06), pp. 145-167.
Huge White and Brendan Taylor, ‘A Rising China and American Perturbations’, in
William T. Tow, ed., Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific: A Regional-Global Nexus?
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 85-98.
Michael D. Swaine and Zhang Tuosheng, with Danielle F.S. Cohen, Managing Sino-
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American Crises: Case Studies and Analysis (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace, 2006).
Christopher P. Twomey, ‘Chinese-U.S. Strategic Affairs: Dangerous Dynamism’,
Arms Control Today 39:1 (January/February 2009),
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2009_01-02/china_us_dangerous_dynamism;
Tianjian Shi and Meredith C. Wen, Avoiding Mutual Midsunderstanding. Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace Policy Brief (January 2009),
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/china_us_relations.pdf
Week 7
Sino-Japanese Relations
Key topics:
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The nature of Sino-Japanese relations
Reconciliation and estrangement
Contentious issues in bilateral relations
Essential readings:
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Hiroki Takeuchi, ‘Sino-Japanese Relations: Power, Interdependence, and Domestic
Politics’, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 14:1 (January 2014), pp. 7-32.
Yinan He, ‘Forty Years in Paradox: Post-Normalization Sino-Japanese Relations’,
China Perspective, no. 4 (2013), pp. 7-16.
Akio Takahara, ‘A Japanese Perspective on China’s Rise and the East Asian Order’,
in Ross and Zhu, pp. 218-237.
Alessio Patalano. ‘Seapower and Sino-Japanese Relations in the East China Sea’,
Asian Affairs 45:1 (February 2014), pp. 34-54.
Additional readings:
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Chien-peng Chung, ‘China and Japan in “ASEAN Plus” Multilateral Arrangements:
Raining on the Other Guy’s Parade’, Asian Survey 53:5 (September/October 2013),
pp. 801-824.
Linus Hagstro, ‘Power Shift in East Asia’? Chinese Journal of International Politics 5
(2012), pp. 267-297.
The Tokyo Foundation, Japan’s Security Strategy toward China (Tokyo: The Tokyo
Foundation, October 2011),
http://www.tokyofoundation.org/en/additional_info/security_strategy_toward_china.p
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Evelyn Goh, Japan, China and the Great Power Bargain in East Asia. East Asia
Institute, Korea, November 2011,
http://www.eai.or.kr/data/bbs/eng_report/2011103118375220.pdf
Yinan He, ‘Ripe for Cooperation or Rivalry? Commerce, Realpolitik, and War
Memory in Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations’, Asian Security 4:2 (May 2008),
pp. 162-197.
Richard C. Bush, The Perils of Proximity: China-Japan Security Relations
(Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution Press, 2010).
Michael Yahuda, ‘The Limits of Economic Interdependence: Sino-Japanese
Relations’, in New Directions, pp. 131-161.
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Kentaro Sakuwa, ‘A Not So Dangerous Dyad: China’s Rise and Sino-Japanese
Rivalry’, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 9:3 (2009), pp. 497-528;
Christian Wirth, ‘China, Japan, and East Asian Regional Cooperation’, International
Relations of the Asia-Pacific 9:3 (2009), pp. 469-496.
Yang Bojiang, ‘Redefining Sino-Japanese Relations after Koizumi’, The Washington
Quarterly 29:4 (Autumn 2006), pp. 129-137.
Hoshiyama Takashi, ‘New Japan-China Relations’, Asia-Pacific Review 15:2
(November 2008), pp. 86-101
Shogo Suzuki, ‘Can Apology Serve as a Security Policy’? Korean Journal of Defense
Analysis 20:4 (December 2008), 319-333.
Paul J. Smith, ‘China-Japan Relations and the Future Geopolitics of East Asia’, Asian
Affairs 35:4 (2009), pp. 230-256.
Asian Perspective 31:1 (2007), special issue on reconciliation between China and
Japan, http://www.asianperspective.org/past-issues.html
Week 8
China and the Korean Peninsula
Key topics:
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The Korean Peninsula and Security Challenges in Northeast Asia
China’s North Korea Policy
Dealing with North Korea’s Nuclear Issue
Essential reading:
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Bates Gill, China’s North Korea Policy. USIP Special Report 283 (July 2011).
Scott A. Snyder, China’s Rise and the Two Koreas (Boulder and London: Lynne
Rienner Publishers, 2009), pp. 1-19.
Mathieu Duchâtel and Phillip Schell, China’s Policy on North Korea. SIPRI Policy
Paper 40 (Stockholm: SIPRI, December 2013), at:
http://books.sipri.org/files/PP/SIPRIPP40.pdf
Additional reading:
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Jonathan Pollack, No Exit. Adelphi Paper (London: International Institute of Strategic
Studies, 2011).
Bonnie Glaser and Brittany Billingsley, Reordering Chinese Priorities on the Korean
Peninsula (Washington, D.C.: Center for International and Strategic Studies,
November
2012),
http://csis.org/files/publication/121217_Glaser_ReOrderingChinese_web.pdf
Denny Roy, ‘The North Korea Crisis in Sino-US Relations’, Journal of Comparative
Asian Development 10:2 (December 2011), pp. 281-304.
Dick Nanto and Mark Manyin, China-North Korea Relations. Congressional
Research Service, December 2010.
Zhu Feng, ‘Flawed Mediation and a Compelling Mission: Chinese Diplomacy in the
Six-Party Talks to Denuclearize North Korea’, East Asia (2011, pp. 191-218.
Julia Joo-A Lee, ‘To Fuel or Not to Fuel: China’s Energy Assistance to North Korea’,
Asian Security 5:1 (2009), pp. 45-72.
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International Crisis Group, China and Inter-Korean Clashes in the Yellow Sea. Asia
Report No. 200 (January 2011).
Scott Snyder and See-Won Byun, ‘Cheonan and Yeonpyeong: the Northeast Asian
Response to North Korea’s Provocation’, The RUSI Journal 156:2 (April/May 2011),
pp. 74-81.
Gordon J. Chang, ‘Fatal Attraction: China’s Strengthening Partnership with North
Korea’, World Affairs (May/June 2011), pp. 43-50.
Stephan Haggard, Jennifer Lee, and Marcus Noland, ‘Integration in the Absence of
Institutions: China-North Korea Cross-Border Exchange’, (Washington, D.C.:
Petersen Institute of International Economics, August 2011).
Nathaniel Aden, ‘North Korean Trade with China as Reported in Chinese Customs
Statistics’, Korean Journal of Defense Analysis 23:2 (June 2011), pp. 231-255.
Jin Moo Kim, ‘North Korea’s Reliance on China and China’s Influence on North
Korea’, Korean Journal of Defense Analysis 23:2 (June 2011), pp. 257-271.
Benjamin Habib, ‘North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Programme and the Maintenance
of the Songun System’, Pacific Review 24:1 (March 2011), pp. 43-64.
Heeok Lee, ‘China’s Policy toward (South) Korea: Objectives of and Obstacles to the
Strategic Partnership’, Korean Journal of Defense Analysis 22:3 (September 2010),
pp. 283-301.
Jooyoung Song, ‘Understanding China’s Response to North Korea’s Provocation’,
Asian Survey 51:6 (Nov/Dec 2011), pp. 1134-1155.
Dong Ryul Lee, ‘China’s Policy and Influence on the North Korea Nuclear Issue:
Denuclearization and/or Stabilization of the Korean Peninsula’? Korean Journal of
Defense Analysis 22:2 (June 2010), pp. 163-181.
Choi Jinwook, ed., US-China Relations and Korean Unification (Seoul: Korea
Institute for National Unification, 2011), chapters by Fei-Ling Wang and John Park.
Scott A. Snyder, ‘Instability in North Korea and Its Impact on U.S.-China Relations’,
in Managing Instability on China’s Periphery (New York: Council on Foreign
Relations, September 2011), pp. 11-24.
Irina Mironova, ‘The Korean Issue in China’s New Diplomacy’, Security Index 17:1
(2011), pp. 87-93.
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Week 9
China, Russia and Central Asia
Key topics:
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Sino-Russian relations in historical perspective
Strategic or convenient partnership
Sino-Russian cooperation and challenges to U.S. primacy
China and the new ‘silk road’ to Central Asia
Essential reading:
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Robert Sutter, Foreign Relations of the PRC, pp. 250-261.
Richard Weitz, ‘Great Power Symbiosis: The Russia-China Axis’, World Affairs
(November/December 2012), pp. 71-78.
Stephen Blank, ‘The Context of Russo-Chinese Military Relations’, American
Foreign Policy Interests 35 (2013), pp. 243-253.
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Sir Tony Brenton, ‘Russia and China: An Axis of Insecurity’, Asian Affairs 44:2
(2013), pp. 231-249.
Additional reading:
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Niklas Swanström, China and Greater Central Asia: A New Frontier? (Washington,
D.C’: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, December
2011), http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/silkroadpapers/1112Swanstrom.pdf
Arkady Moshes & Matti Nojonen (eds.), Russia-China Relations: Current State,
Alternative Futures, and Implications for the West (Helsinki: Finnish Institute of
International Affairs, September 2011).
Richard Weitz, ‘Putin and the Future of the Sino-Russian Partnership’, China Brief
(Jamestown Foundation, October 28, 2011).
François Godement, A New Great Game in Central Asia. (European Council on
Foreign Relations, September 2011), http://www.ecfr.eu/page//China%20Analysis_The%20new%20Great%20Game%20in%20Central%20Asia_Se
ptember2011.pdf
Rejan Menon, ‘The Limits of Chinese-Russian Partnership’, Survival 51:3 (June-July
2009), pp. 99-130.
Alyson J. K. Bailes et al., The Shanghai Cooperation Organization. SIPRI Policy
Paper No. 17 (May 2007), http://books.sipri.org/files/PP/SIPRIPP17.pdf
Thomas S. Wilkins, ‘Russo-Chinese Strategic Partnership: A New Form of Security
Cooperation’? Contemporary Security Policy 29:2 (August 2008), pp. 358-383.
Yu Bin, ‘China and Russia: Normalizing Their Strategic Partnership’, in David
Shambaugh, ed., Power Shift: China and Asia’s New Dynamics (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2005), pp. 228-244.
Emilian Kavalski, ‘Shanghaied into Cooperation: Framing China’s Socialization of
Central Asia’, Journal of Asian and African Studies 45:2 (April 2010), pp. 131-145.
Paradorn Rangsimaporn, ‘Russia’s Debate on Military-Technological Cooperation
with China: From Yeltsin to Putin’, Asian Survey 46:3 (May/June 2006), pp. 477-495.
Yong Deng, ‘Remolding Great Power Politics: China’s Strategic Partnerships with
Russia, the European Union, and India’, Journal of Strategic Studies 30:4-5 (AugustOctober 2007), pp. 863-903
Andrew Kuchins, ‘Russia and China: The Ambivalent Embrace’, Current History
(October 2007), pp. 321-327.
Robert Sutter, Chinese Foreign Relations, Chapter 11.
Russell Ong, ‘China’s Strategic Convergence with Russia’, Korean Journal of
Defense Analysis 21:3 (September 2009), pp. 315-328.
Bobo Lo, Axis of convenience: Moscow, Beijing and the new geopolitics
(Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Press, 2008).
Susan Turner, ‘Russia, China, and a Multipolar World Order: the Danger in the
Undefined’, Asian Perspective 33:1 (2009), pp. 159-184.
John Gulick, ‘Russo-Chinese Energy Cooperation: Stepping Stone from Strategic
Partnership to Geo-economic Integration’? International Journal of Comparative
Sociology 48:2-3 (2007), pp. 203-233.
Peter Ferdinand, ‘Sunset, Sunrise: China and Russia Construct a New Relationship’,
International Affairs 83:5 (2007), pp. 841-867.
Russel Ong, ‘China’s Security Interests in Central Asia’, Central Asian Survey 24:4
(December 2005), pp. 425-439.
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Niklas Swanstrom, ‘China and Greater Central Asia: Economic Opportunities and
Security Concerns’, in Lowell Dittmer and George T. Yu, eds., China, the Developing
World, and the New Global Dynamic (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner
Publishers, 2010), pp. 109-128.
Week 10
China, India, and South Asia
Key topics:
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Sino-Indian relations: past and present
The dragon and the elephant: cooperation and conflict
South Asia in Chinese geo-strategic calculation
Essential reading:
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John W. Garver, ‘The Security Dilemma in Sino-Indian Relations’, India Review 1:4
(October 2002), pp. 1-38.
Harsh V. Pant, The Growing Complexity of Sino-Indian Ties (Carlisle, PA: Strategic
Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, June 2014).
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/download.cfm?q=1214
Rosheen Kabraji, The China-Pakistan Alliance: Rhetoric and Limitations. London:
Chatham House, December 2012.
Jonathan H. Ping, ‘China’s Relations with India’s Neighbors’, Asian Journal of
Political Science 21:1 (2013), pp. 21-40.
Additional reading:
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Special issue, World Policy Journal, December 2013, on Sino-Indian relations.
Brahma Chellaney, ‘Rising Powers, Rising Tensions: The Troubled China-India
Relationship’, SAIS Review 32:2 (Summer-Fall 2012), pp. 99-108.
Ashley Tellis and Sean Mirski, eds., Crux of Asia: China, India and the Emerging
Global Order (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
2013), http://carnegieendowment.org/files/crux_of_asia.pdf, various chapters.
Special issue on Sino-Indian relations, Journal of International Affairs (SpringSummer 2011), various articles.
Murray Scot Tanner, with Kerry B. Dumbaugh and Ian M. Easton, Distracted
Antagonists, Wary Partners: China and India Assess Their Security Relations (CAN
China Studies, September 2011),
http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/Distracted%20Antagonists%2C%20W
ary%20Partners%20D0025816%20A1.pdf
Lisa Curtis and Dean Cheng, ‘The China Challenge: A Strategic Vision for U.S.-India
Relations’, Heritage Foundation Backgrounder (July 2011),
http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2011/pdf/bg2583.pdf
Harsh V. Pant, ‘The Pakistan Thorn in China-India-U.S. Relations’, Washington
Quarterly 35:1 (Winter 2012), PP. 83-95,
http://www.twq.com/12winter/docs/12winter_Pant.pdf
Sumita Kumar, ‘The China-Pakistan Strategic Relationship: Trade, Investment,
Energy and Infrastructure’, Strategic Analysis 31:5 (September 2007), pp. 757-790.
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David M. Malone and Rohan Mukherjee, ‘India and China: Conflict and Cooperation’,
Survival 52:1 (February-March 2010), pp. 137-158.
Jonathan Holslag, ‘The Persistent Military Security Dilemma between China and
India’, Journal of Strategic Studies 32:6 (December 2009), pp. 811-840.
Swaran Singh, ‘India-China Relations: Perception, Problems, and Potential’, South
Asian Survey 15:1 (2008), pp. 83-98.
Zhang Guihong, ‘Sino-Indian Security Relations: Bilateral Issues, External Factors
and Regional Implications’, South Asian Survey 12:1 (2005), pp. 61-74.
Lawrence Saez and Crystal Chang, ‘China and South Asia: Strategic Implications and
Economic Imperatives’, in Lowell Dittmer and George T. Yu, eds., China, the
Developing World, and the New Global Dynamic (Boulder and London: Lynne
Rienner Publishers, 2010), pp. 83-108.
T.V. Paul, ‘Chinese-Pakistani Nuclear/Missile Ties and the Balance of Power’, The
Nonproliferation Review 10:2 (Summer 2003), pp. 21-29.
Kanti Bajpai, ‘Pakistan and China in Indian Strategic Thought’, International Journal
85 (Autumn 2007), pp. 805-822.
Ziad haider, ‘Sino-Pakistan Relations and Xinjiang’s Uighurs’, Asian Survey
45:4(July/August 2005), pp. 522-545.
Jing-dong Yuan, ‘The Dragon and the Elephant: Chinese-Indian Relations in the 21st
Century’, The Washington Quarterly 30:3 (Summer 2007), pp. 131-144.
Week 11
China and Southeast Asia
Key topics:
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Changing China-ASEAN relations since the 1990s
Beijing’s ‘charm offensive’?
China and regional institutions
Maritime disputes
Essential readings:
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Robert Sutter, Foreign Relations of the PRC, pp. 234-243.
Ian Storey, ‘China’s Bilateral and Multilateral Diplomacy in the South China Sea’, in
Patrick M. Cronin, ed., Cooperation from Strength: the United States, China and the
South China Sea (Washington, D.C.: Center for a New American Security, January
2012), pp. 53-66.
Michael Yahuda, ‘China’s New Assertiveness in the South China Sea’, Journal of
Contemporary China 22 (2013), pp. 446-459.
Jeffrey Reeves, ‘China’s Unravelling Engagement Strategy’, The Washington
Quarterly 36:4 (Fall 2013), pp. 139-149.
Additional readings:
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Special Focus: the South China Sea Dispute, Contemporary Southeast Asia 33:3
(December 2011).
Peter Dutton, ‘Three Disputes and Three Objectives: China and the South China Sea’,
Naval War College Review 66:4 (Autumn 2011), pp. 42-67.
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Sam Bateman, ‘Solving the “Wicked Problems” of Maritime Security: Are Regional
Forums up to the Task’? Contemporary Southeast Asia 33:1 (2011), pp. 1028.
Robert D. Kaplan, ‘The South China Sea Is the Future of Conflict’, Foreign Policy
(September/October 2011), pp. 78-85.
Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt, ‘China’s Soft Power Diplomacy in Southeast Asia’,
The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 26 (2008), pp. 22-49.
Carl Ungerer, Ian Storey and Sam Bateman, “Making Mischief: the Return of the
South China Sea Dispute,” (Australian Strategic Policy Institute, December 2010), pp.
1-16.
Evelyn Goh, ‘Southeast Asian Perspectives on the China Challenge’, Journal of
Strategic Studies 30:4 (2007), pp. 809-832.
Jorn Dosch, ‘China and Southeast Asia: A New Regional Order in the Making’? in
Lowell Dittmer and George T. Yu, eds., China, the Developing World, and the New
Global Dynamic (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010), pp. 61-81.
Cheng-Chwee Kuik, ‘China’s Evolving Multilateralism in Asia’, in Kent E. Calder
and Francis Fukuyama, eds., East Asian Multilateralism: Prospects for Regional
Security (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), pp. 109-142.
Joshua Kurlantzick, ‘China’s Growing Influence in Southeast Asia’, in Riordan Roett
and Guadalupe Paz, eds., China’s Expansion into the Western Hemisphere:
Implications for Latin America and the United States (Washington, DC: The
Brookings Institution, 2008), pp. 193-212.
Session 12
China’s Relations with Australia
Key topics:
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Growing Sino-Australian Economic Ties
China’s rise and the Challenges for Australia’s foreign policy
Essential readings:
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Joseph A. Camilleri, Aran Martin, and Michális S. Michael, ‘Courting the Dragon:
Australia’s Emerging Dialogue with China’, Asian Politics & Policy 5:1 (January
2013), pp. 1-25.
James Reilly, ‘Counting on China? Australia’s Strategic Response to Economic
Interdependence’, Chinese Journal of International Politics 5 (2012), pp. 369-394.
Ross Terril, Facing the Dragon: China Policy in a New Era. (Canberra: Australian
Strategic Policy Institute, May 2013), at: https://www.aspi.org.au/publications/facingthe-dragon-china-policy-in-a-new-era/Strategy_Facing_the_Dragon.pdf
Mark Beeson and Yong Wang, “Australia, China and the U.S. in an Era of
Interdependence: Irreconcilable Interests, Inadequate Institutions?” Asian Survey 54:3
(May/June 2014), pp. 565‐583.
Additional readings:
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Jingdong Yuan, A Rising Power Looks Down Under: Chinese Perspectives on
Australia (Canberra: Australian Strategic Policy Institute), March 2014,
https://www.aspi.org.au/publications/a-rising-power-looks-down-under-chineseperspectives-on-australia/Rising_Power_China.pdf
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Robert Ayson, ‘Choosing Ahead of Time? Australia, New Zealand and the US-China
Contest in Asia’, Contemporary Southeast Asia 34:3 (2012), pp. 338-64.
Hugh White, “Power Shift: Australia’s Future between Washington and Beijing,”
Quarterly Essay 39 (2010), pp. 1-74.
James Manicomab and Andrew O'Neilc, “Accommodation, Realignment, or Business
as Usual? Australia’s Response to a Rising China,” Australian Journal of
International Affairs 23:1 (March 2010), pp. 23-44.
Alan Dupont, ‘Living with the Dragon: Why Australia Needs a China Strategy’,
Lowy Institute Policy Brief, June 2011.
Yi Wang, Australia-China Relations post 1949: Sixty Years of Trade and Politics
(Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2012).
Billy Griffiths, The China Breakthrough: Whitlam in the Middle Kingdom, 1971
(Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2012).
David Uren, The Kingdom and the Quarry: China, Australia, Fear and Greed
(Sydney: Black, Inc., 2012).
James Reilly and Jingdong Yuan, Australia and China at 40 (Sydney: University of
New South Wales Press, 2012).
Czeslaw Tubilewicz, ‘The 2009 Defence White Paper and the Rudd Government’s
Response to China’s Rise’, Australian Journal of International Affairs 45:1 (March
2010), pp. 149-157.
Malcolm Fraser, ‘The Folly of Trying to Contain China’, Global Asia 7:4 (Winter
2012), pp. 28-33.
John Lee, ‘A Tilt toward China? Australia Reconsiders Its American Ties’, World
Affairs (November/December 2012), pp. 62-70.
Robert Ayson, ‘China Central? Australia’s Asia Strategy’, The International
Spectator 44:2 (June 2009), pp. 25-40.
Linda Jakobson, Australia-China Ties: In Search for Political Trust, Policy Brief,
Low Institute for International Policy, 28 June 2012,
http://lowyinstitute.cachefly.net/files/jakobson_australia_china_ties.pdf.
Hugh White, The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power (Sydney: Black
Inc., 2012).
Baoguang He, ‘Politics of Accommodation of the Rise of China: the Case of
Australia’, Journal of Contemporary China 21(73)(January 2012), pp. 53-70.
The Growing Ties: China’s Outbound Investment in Australia,
http://epublishbyus.com/ebook/ebook?id=10023001#/0
Jeffrey Wilson, ‘Resource Nationalism or Resource Liberalism’. Australian Journal
of International Affairs 65:3 (June 2011), pp. 283-304.
John Larun, “Into the Dragon’s Den: Australian Investments into China,” Lowy
Institute for International Policy, August 2010.
Andrew Shearer, “Sweet and Sour: Australian Public Attitudes toward China,” Lowy
Institute for International Policy, August 2010.
Rod Lyon, “Changing, Asia, Rising China, and Australia’s Strategic Choices,” Policy
Analysis 40 (Australian Strategic Policy Institute, April 2009).
William T. Tow and Chen-shen Yen, “Australia-Taiwan Relations: the Evolving
Geopolitical Setting,” Australian Journal of International Affairs 61:3 (September
2007), pp. 330-350.
Hugh White, “The Limits to Optimism: Australia and the Rise of China,” Australian
Journal of International Affairs 59:4 (December 2005), pp. 469-480.
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Weeks 13-14 China’s New International Activism: Africa and Latin America
Key topics:
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China and Africa: past and present
China’s expansion into Latin America
Beijing’s new approaches to the developing world
Essential readings:
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Robert Sutter, Foreign Relations of the PRC, pp. 277-293.
Shaun Breslin, ‘China and the South: Objectives, Actors, and Interactions’,
Development and Change 44:6 (2013), pp. 1273-1294.
Georg Struver, ‘ “Bereft of Friends?” China’s Rise and Search for Political Partners in
South America’, Chinese Journal of International Politics 7:1 (January 2014), pp.
117-151.
Evan Ellis, The Expanding Chinese Footprint in Latin America. (Paris: Centre for
Asian Studies, French Institute of International Affairs, February 2012).
Douglas Winton, ‘Economic Statecraft: China in Africa’, Parameters 43:4 (Winter
2013-14), pp. 99-110.
Fei-Ling Wang & Esi A. Elliot. ‘China in Africa: Presence, Perceptions and
Prospects’, Journal of Contemporary China 22:24 (May 2014), pp. – pagination to be
assigned). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2014.898888
Additional readings:
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Larry Hanauer and Lyle J. Morris, Chinese Engagement in Africa: Drivers, Reactions,
and Implications for U.S. Policy (Santa Monica: RAND, 2014),
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR500/RR521/RAND_
RR521.pdf
Linda Jakobson, ‘China’s Diplomacy toward Africa: Drivers and Constraints’,
International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 9 (2009), pp. 403-433.
Adrian Hadland, ‘If the Hat Fits: Revisiting Chinese “Neo-Imperialism” in Africa
from a Comparative Historical Perspective’, Asian Politics & Policy 4:4 (2012), pp.
467-485.
Francisco De Santibañes, “An End to U.S. Hegemony? The Strategic Implications for
China’s Growing Presence in Latin America,” Comparative Strategy 28:1 (2009), pp.
17-36.
Daniel Large, ‘China and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa: the Case of Sudan’,
Policy Briefing 36, China in Africa Project, October 2011,
http://www.saiia.org.za/images/stories/pubs/briefings/saia_spb_36_large_20111031.p
dfMaite J. Iturre and Carman Amado Mendes, ‘Regional Implications of China’s
Quest for Energy in Latin America’, East Asia 27 (2010), pp. 127-143.
R. Evan Ellis, “Chinese Soft Power in Latin America,” Joint Forces Quarterly 61 (1st
Quarter 2011), pp. 85-91.
Li Anshan, “China’s New Policy toward Africa,” in Robert I. Rotberg, ed., China into
Africa: Trade, Aid, and Influence (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Press,
2008), pp. 21-49.
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Ian Taylor, China’s New Role in Africa (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner
Publishers, 2009).
Chris Alden et al., China’s Return to Africa (New York: Columbia University Press,
2008).
R. Evan Ellis, China in Latin America: The Whats & Wherefores (Boulder and
London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009).
George T. Yu, “China’s Africa Policy: South-South Unity and Cooperation,” in
Lowell Dittmer and George T. Yu, eds., China, the Developing World, and the New
Global Dynamic (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010), pp. 129156.
Nicola Phillips, “China and Latin America: Development Challenges and Geopolitical
Dilemmas,” in Lowell Dittmer and George T. Yu, eds., China, the Developing World,
and the New Global Dynamic (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers,
2010), pp. 177-201.
Chris Alden, “China’s New Engagement with Africa,” in Riordan Roett and
Guadalupe Paz, eds., China’s Expansion into the Western Hemisphere: Implications
for Latin America and the United States (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution,
2008), pp. 213-235.
Xiang Lanxin, “An Alternative Chinese View,” in Riordan Roett and Guadalupe Paz,
eds., China’s Expansion into the Western Hemisphere: Implications for Latin America
and the United States (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2008), pp. 44-58.
Alex Vines, ‘China in Africa: a Mixed Blessing’? Current History (May 2007), pp.
213-219.
Giles Mohan & Marcus Power, ‘New African Choices? The Politics of Chinese
Engagement’, Review of African Political Economy 115 (2008), pp. 23-42.
Jonathan Holslag, ‘China’s New Mercantilism in Central Africa’, African and Asian
Studies 5:2 (2006), pp. 133-169.
Week 15
China and Cross-Strait Relations
Key topics:
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Taiwan’s emergence as a democracy
China, the United States, and the Taiwan issue
Cross-Strait relations: political tension and economic interdependence
Essential readings:
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Dean P. Chen, ‘Constructing Peaceful Development: The Changing Interpretations of
“One China” and Beijing’s Taiwan Strait Policy’, Asian Security 10:1 (March 2014),
pp. 22-46.
John J. Mearsheimer, ‘Taiwan’s Dire Straits’, The National Interest (March/April
2014), pp. 19-39.
Weixing Hu, ‘Explaining Change and Stability in Cross-Strait Relations: a Punctuated
Equilibrium Model’, Journal of Contemporary China 21:78 (2012), pp. 933-953.
Phillip C. Saunders and Scott L. Kastner, ‘Bridge over Troubled Water? Envisioning
a China-Taiwan Peace Agreement’, International Security 33:4 (Spring 2009), pp. 87114, http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/IS3304_pp087114_Saunders_Kastner.pdf
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Dennis Hickey, ‘Imbalance in the Taiwan Strait’, Parameters 43:3 (Autumn 2013),
pp.43-53.
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Jacques deLisle, “Soft Power in a Hard Place: China, Taiwan, Cross-Strait Relations
and U.S. Policy,” Orbis (Fall 2010), pp. 493-524.
Yijiang Ding, ‘Beijing’s New Approach and the Rapprochement in the Taiwan Strait’,
Asian Affairs (2009), pp. 179-199.
Michael D. Swaine and Roy D. Kamphausen, ‘Military Modernization in Taiwan’, in
Tellis and Wills, Strategic Asia 2005-06, pp. 387-422.
Michael S. Chase, ‘Taiwan’s Arms Procurement Debate’, Asian Survey 48:4
(July/August 2008), pp. 703-724.
Bruce Gilley, ‘Not So Dire Straits: How the Finlandization of Taiwan Benefits U.S.
Security’, Foreign Affairs, 89:1 (Jan/Feb 2010), pp. 44-60.
Douglas B. Fuller, ‘The Cross-Strait Economic Relationship’s Impacts’, Asian Survey
48:2 (March/April 2008), pp. 239-264.
Michael D. Swaine et al., Assessing the Threat: the Chinese Military and Taiwan’s
Security (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2007).
Vincent Wei-cheng Wang, ‘Taiwan: Conventional Deterrence, Soft Power, and the
Nuclear Option’, in Muthiah Alagappa, ed., The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and
Security in 21st Century Asia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008), pp. 404428.
Phillip C. Saunders, ‘Long-Terms Trends in China-Taiwan Relations: Implications for
U.S. Taiwan Policy’, Asian Survey 45:6 (November/December 2005), pp. 970-991.
Shirley Kan, Taiwan: Major U.S. Arms Sales since 1990. Congressional Research
Service Report, RL30957 (February 16, 2010),
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL30957.pdf
Bonnie Glaser, Building Trust across the Taiwan Strait (Washington, DC: Center for
International and Strategic Studies, 2010),
http://csis.org/files/publication/100107_Glaser_BuildingTrust_Web.pdf
Further Resources
More books:
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Denny Roy, The Return of the Dragon (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).
Denny Roy, China’s Foreign Relations (Boulder, Col: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).
Michael E. Brown, et al., eds., The Rise of China (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,
2000).
Samuel S. Kim, ed., China and the World, 4th edition (Boulder, Col.: Westview
Press, 1998).
Andrew Nathan and Robert Ross, The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress (New
York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998).
Michael Hunt, The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1996).
Allen S. Whiting, The Chinese Calculus of Deterrence (Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1975).
Peter van Ness, Revolution and Chinese Foreign Policy: Peking’s Support for Wars of
National Liberation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970).
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Rosemary Foot, The Practice of Power (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Chih-yu Shih, China’s Just World: The Morality of Chinese Foreign Policy (Boulder,
Col.: Lynn Reiner, 1993).
Alastair Iain Johnston, Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in
Chinese History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).
David Shambaugh, Beautiful Imperialist: China Perceives the United States, 19721990 (Princeton University Press, 1990).
Thomas J. Christensen, Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization,
and Sino-American Conflict, 1947-1958 (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1996).
Wang Jianwei, Limited Adversaries: Post-Cold War Sino-American Mutual Images
(Oxford University Press, 2000).
David M. Lampton, Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations,
1989-2000 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).
Lu Ning, The Dynamics of Foreign Policy Decision Making in China, 2nd edition
(Boulder, CO; Westview Press, 2000).
James Mulvenon, Soldiers of Fortune: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese MilitaryBusiness Complex, 1978-1998 (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2001).
John W. Lewis and Xue Litai, China’s Strategic Seapower: the Politics of Force
Modernization in the Nuclear Age (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994).
Deng Yong, China’s Struggle for Status—The Realignment of International Relations
(Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Alastair Iain Johnston, Social States: China in International Institutions, 1980-2000
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).
M. Taylor Fravel, Strong Border, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in
China’s Territorial Disputes (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).
Susan Shirk, China: Fragile Superpower (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Joshua Kurlantzick, Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the
World (New Haven, NJ: Yale University Press, 2008).
David Kang, China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2007).
Useful Websites/Portals:
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Taiwan Security Research: http://www.taiwansecurity.org
Center for Strategic and International Studies (Pacific Forum):
http://www.csis.org/pacfor/
International Relations and Security Network: http://www.isn.ethz.ch/
Nautilus Institute: http://www.nautilus.org/
Defenselink http://www.defenselink.mil/
Japan Policy research institute: http://jpri.org/index.html
Military Research Library Network: http://merln.ndu.edu/
Hoover Institution, Chinese Leadership Monitor:
http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Asia Program:
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/programs/asia/
Center for Naval Analysis China Studies Program:
http://www.cna.org/international/china/
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World Security Institute China Security Program:
http://www.chinasecurity.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemi
d=2&lang=en
The Brookings Institution John L. Thornton China Center:
http://www.brookings.edu/china.aspx
University of Southern California US-China Institute: http://china.usc.edu/
Lowy Institute for International Policy: www.lowyinstitute.org
Australian Strategic Policy Institute: www.aspi.org.au
Useful journals
Asian Security
Asian Survey
Asian Affairs: An American Review
Australian Journal of International Affairs
China Journal
China Quarterly
China Report
Comparative Strategy
Contemporary Security Policy
International Affairs (London)
International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
International Security
International Studies Quarterly
Journal of Contemporary China
Journal of East Asian Studies
Journal of Strategic Studies
The National Interest
Naval War College Review
Orbis
Pacific Affairs
Pacific Review
Parameters
Security Dialogue
Security Studies
Strategic Analysis
Survival
World Policy Journal
World Politics
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